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King David’ Path
Some feel their need grows greater by the day.
Some feel alone.
Some are burdened, angry, worried for what will happen to their children
or simply sad that humanity has come to this.
We’re all combatants in a spiritual war.
They suffer most who seek for what is true
and will not take the easy road that others force on them.
God takes our raw emotions and works with them.
He’ll bring us through
into a deeper closeness to His realm.
Prayer helps us to accept. Prayer lifts our load
and brings us to the place where all is light.
But we must still go through these dark, dark times
when nothing turns out right.
Periods of utter loneliness are part of the path we walk.
King David felt them – we, today, are just the same as him
as God perfects us slowly and we learn to do His will.
Upcoming events.
Trivia Corner – Elemental Beings Arising from Man’s Immoral Deeds?
“…Matters, for example, which have a harmful result on the etheric body are bad laws, or bad social measures prevailing in a community. All that leads to want of harmony, all that makes for bad adjustments between man and man, works in such a way through the feeling which it creates in the common life that the effect is continued into the etheric body. The accumulation in the etheric body caused through these experiences of the soul brings about again detachments from the beings working in from the spiritual worlds and these likewise are now to be found in our environment — they are ______ or ______”
— Rudolf Steiner
Embryo DVDs – Jaap van der Wal
Embryo in Us & Embryo in Motion
2017 & 2010 Workshops
Recorded live in Portland, Oregon
These two seminars explore human prenatal development and show how biology is expressing the essence of human spiritual enfoldment. The two DVD sets are available only here.
Jaap van der Wal, PhD, MD is an associate professor for anatomy and embryology at the University of Maastricht, Holland.
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